I was looking through some old issues on The World of DS today, and I have to say that they reminded me of something - many of the cartoons done by Sherlock and Stanford and Warren Oddsson have humor extremely reminiscent of the humor in the DS film's trailer. And if I'm being truthful, I definitely remember finding them quite amusing back in the day (as I'm sure others had or such cartoons wouldn't have continued to apper) so perhaps that's why I'm not finding it quite as hard as others to accept and even appreciate some of the humor in the trailer. And if I'm also being truthful, I'm also guilty of having said very similar things to what's depicted in the trailer. In fact, a friend just reminded me today that one day back in the '80s when we were watching an ep of DS in which Barnabas and Angelique were arguing and Barn said something to the effect of wondering what had ever attracted him to her, I joked that she ripped open whatever she was wearing, thrust her chest out, and said "Could it have been these?!" And when my friend saw the similar scene in the trailer, he laughed hysterically because he thought it was like the film was channeling that moment with us. What can I say?
But then, as anyone who reads the Caption This! and the Complete This Phrase / Fill In The Blank(s) boards knows, I post hopefully humorous things about DS nearly ever day of the week. And nothing about that means that I don't love DS or that I don't generally take it seriously when we're having serious discussions about it. The evidence for that is all over the forum as well. So, it really isn't impossible to love DS and also to be able to appreciate any sort of humorous DS take - including what we're seeing depicted in the trailer.
So, I guess that one of the things I'm trying to say is that now that Depp has told us that the DS film is "not anything like a vampire picture" (and it might have been nice had he told us that sooner), I've decided to embrace the trailer and use a few of the humorous things in it as some of my avatars (yes, Midnite and I now have multiple avatars - but then, being an admin has its privileges
). And I assure anyone who has commented unfavorably about two of the scenes I'm using that I'm simply using them because I honestly find the moments funny and not for any other reasons...
53 days 3 hours 31 minutes 3 seconds until the day the Depp/Burton Dark Shadows is released(ET)!!